Word: deadlocking
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Seven leading Latin American nations -Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Panama, Ecuador-cold-shouldered the U.S. last week to vote for U.S.S.R.-backed Poland instead of U.S.-backed Turkey to fill a U.N. Security Council seat. The failure to muster a two-thirds vote resulted in a deadlock and pushed decision on the issue into this week...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 19--Turkey, the West's candidate for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, went into a slight lead over Communist Poland yesterday in a new round of voting. But the Turks were well short of a two-thirds majority, and the East-West deadlock persisted...
...clear the panel was driving hard in the time left to break the deadlock that has blocked settlement...
...services and the healthiest export-import situation in this century, most of England is enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Another helpful issue was foreign affairs. Despite the electoral liability, especially in Scotland, of recent abuses of power in Kenya and Nyasaland, Macmillan's leadership in trying to break the cold war deadlock and get to the summit gave the Conservatives an edge in external affairs...
With the rank and file backing him up, and with other unions contributing as rarely before to his strike kitty, McDonald could refuse even to discuss revision of 2-B at the bargaining table. Result: total deadlock. Last fortnight, denouncing the negotiations as a "farcical filibuster," McDonald walked...